Dry, reverb or delay live

[Nightbat]

I found that in recording putting reverb and delay on separate channels prevents overkill (unless you wanna specifically going for the "Arena in a Pub-effect")
and keeps the delay clear
though I realize that's harder to pull off live (especially with FX in front of the amp)

Another nice thing is a ducker delay, leaving your playing clear, but giving off a nice end-trail

[javert]

Nightbat, the TC Electronic multi-effect units usually have the option of using reverb and delays in parallel for the same reason. I think that works very nicely and leaves your delays nice and clean. Especially for high-gain stuff, I prefer some very clean delays and their dynamic delay is very nice for that.

With the band, I usually just use a touch of reverb on my rhythm playing and reverb and clean delay on my leads but not much.

[Radiohead]

Interesting, I am a home player and play just for pleasure, but I enjoyed learning about how you dial things back live. Thx

[dvscool]

regarding the BBE, I found it HAS to be in the loop or it sounds like crap....IMO anyways.....

[roodyrocker]

Ive used different setups live at different times. In general, I find that a reverb pedal in front of my distortion channels seems not to sound so good live. It does work well on clean channels though. I use delay turning it off/on as needed. I usually don't leave it on all the time. While it adds a bit to your sound live it doesn't seem to keep the sound in your face as an unaltered tone. I'm trying to fix that by using a TC Electronic G-Force multi effects units in the loop of my amps that are so equipped. I also let our sound man add delay and chorus as needed right from our digital mixing board

[Bert]

Touch of reverb on my cleans and crunch tones, touch of delay on my main lead sound. For some leads where I want a more raw sound, I just kick on a distortion pedal boost with my crunch sound rather than switch over to my standard lead tone. I use a MIDI switched Randall-RM4 + Rocktron Xpression system so I don't have to tap dance to make this happen.

[BLOOD SPLATTER]

Dry....delay only when needed!!